A prodigiously long tail, beetling eyebrows with long black hairs, black ears, face, feet and hands, and a general greyish-brown colour of the fur are the distinctive characteristics of the langur.
The same year was one of special importance in the prodigiously versatile activities of Leonardo da Vinci.
A parvenu of the middle classes, he was brutal in his treatment of the lower orders and a sycophant in his behaviour towards the powerful; prodigiously active, ill-obeyedas was the custombut much dreaded.
Saint-Saëns was one of the most prodigiously gifted polymaths in musical history.